In Memory of
JOHN ALBERT STARLING
Trooper 7926822
4th Queen's Own Hussars, R.A.C.
who died on
Friday, 12th June 1942. Age 32.
Additional Information:
Son of George and Mary Starling; husband of Cecilia Kathleen Starling, of Fratton,
Hampshire.
Commemorative Information
Memorial:
ALAMEIN MEMORIAL, Egypt
Grave Reference/
Panel Number:
Column 17.
Location:
The Alamein Memorial forms the entrance to the El Alamein War Cemetery. Alamein is a
village, bypassed by the main coast road, approximately 130 kilometres west of Alexandria
on the road to Mersa Matruh. The first Commission road direction sign is located just
beyond the Alamein police checkpoint and all cemetery visitors should turn off from the
main road onto the parallel old coast road. The cemetery lies off the road beyond the
ridge, and road direction signs are in place approximately 25 metres before the low metal
gates and stone wing walls which are situated centrally at the road edge at the head of
the access path into the cemetery. The Cross of Sacrifice feature may be seen from the
road. Within the south-eastern part of the cemetery will be found the Alamein Cremation
Memorial.
Historical Information:
The Alamein Memorial Land Forces panels commemorate the soldiers of the British
Commonwealth and Empire who fell in the campaigns in Egypt and Libya, and in the
operations of the Eighth Army in Tunisia up to 19th february 1943 - the date when it
came under the command of General Eisenhower - and who have no known grave. It also
commemorates those who served and fell in Syria and Lebanon, Iraq and Persia. The
Alamein Memorial Air Forces panels commemorate the airmen of the Commonwealth who
fell in the campaigns in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Greece, Crete and the Aegean,
Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Somalilands, the Sudan, East Africa, Aden and Madagascar and
who have no known grave. Those who served with the Rhodesian and South African Air
Training Scheme and have no known grave are also honoured here. The Alamein Memorial
commemorates nearly 12,000 Second World War casualties.
Copyright The Commonwealth War Graves Commission